Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-29 Thread Tim Jackson
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:38:39 -0600 Paul R. Ganci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Premselaar wrote: perhaps all I am really asking is if there is a way to allow spamassassin to just stop processing a message that is in a blacklist to save the cycles? I am not asking for spamassassin to

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Alan Premselaar wrote: perhaps all I am really asking is if there is a way to allow spamassassin to just stop processing a message that is in a blacklist to save the cycles? I am not asking for spamassassin to become an MTA/MDA. In that case it would be ultimately more efficient to add a

RE: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Santerre
Why is it not a good idea for Spamassassin to immediately send to /dev/null a message flagged in somebody's blacklist ASAP ... i.e. no further processing? Is the only way to handle this via a procmail recipe? Similar what about a whitelist ... shouldn't it be sent on as Ham ASAP ... i.e. a

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Paul R. Ganci wrote on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:34:22 -0600: However, I don't necessarily agree with the above because while I can add a procmail rule to handle a specific user's blacklist I can't get back the wasted CPU cycles which spamassassin expended But that's up to *your* setup. If you

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul R. Ganci wrote: This is somewhat a philosophical question, but I will ask it anyways. Recent discussions have occurred on this list regarding what Spamassassin should do with Spam. The recent consensus seems to be that it is only Spamassassin's job to tag Spam and that some other program

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-27 Thread Alan Premselaar
Paul R. Ganci wrote: This is somewhat a philosophical question, but I will ask it anyways. Recent discussions have occurred on this list regarding what Spamassassin should do with Spam. The recent consensus seems to be that it is only Spamassassin's job to tag Spam and that some other program

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-27 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Alan Premselaar wrote: Philosophically, it makes more sense for SpamAssassin to focus on identifying SPAM, and let another application (MTA, procmail, etc) focus on what it was primarily designed for: processing (delivery,rejection,etc) of said email. It's certainly no more of a hassle to

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-27 Thread Alan Premselaar
Paul R. Ganci wrote: Alan Premselaar wrote: Philosophically, it makes more sense for SpamAssassin to focus on identifying SPAM, and let another application (MTA, procmail, etc) focus on what it was primarily designed for: processing (delivery,rejection,etc) of said email. It's certainly no